Latin name | Gloriosa superba L. | Family | Colchicaceae | Identified with (Skt) | lāṅgalī, viṣalyā | Identified with (Hin) | karihāri, lāṅgulī | Identified with (Tam) | kalappaikkiḻaṅku, nāpikkoṭi | Identified with (Mal) | mēntōnni, mēttōnni, kāntaḷ | Identified with (Eng) | Malabar glory lily | Botanical info | A herbaceous tendril climber with tuberous rhizome, leaves sessile, with acuminate tips prolonged into spiral tendrils, flowers showy, changing from greenish to scarlet or crimson, fruits linear-oblong capsules, growing all over India up to 1800 m in low jungles | Search occurrence | lāṅgalī, viṣalyā, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | See plant's image | Gloriosa superba L. in Google image search | Encyclopedias & Dictionaries | Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 778) kalappaikkiḻaṅku: Malabar glory lily, Gloriosa superba
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